Episode 6 Pointless

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much indeed.

Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and welcome to Pointless,

the show where we are always striving to find the most obscure answers.

Let's meet today's players.

And couple number one.

Hi, I'm Kyle, this is my chum Mike, and we're from Jersey.

-Couple number two.

-Hi, I'm Louis,

I'm from Liverpool and this is my friend Marie from Pembrokeshire,

and we're students at Bristol.

-Couple number three.

-Hi, I'm Rachel.

I live in Horsham. This is my friend Aidan and he lives in Preston.

And, finally, couple number four.

Hi, I'm Alex, I'm here with my wife, Claire. We're from Hertfordshire.

These are today's contestants.

Thanks very much, all of you. We'll find out more about you

throughout the show as it goes along.

That just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

Still waiting for that drink I promised him in 1996,

it's my Pointless, and indeed pintless, friend, Richard.

Hiya.

Hi, everybody.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon to you.

I'm not really waiting for that drink.

It would mean I'd have to go for a drink with you. Oh!

-That's a long evening.

-Yeah.

Yeah, I know they've cancelled Armstrong and Miller.

I'm sorry, but Ben's gone on to do other things.

-He's good, isn't he?

-Yeah, he is.

Now...two returning pairs from the last show

and they got knocked out in round one and round two,

which normally means not the best pairs we've ever had,

-but what a show last time.

-Oh, man.

Alex and Claire, who got knocked out in round one,

they got knocked out with four points.

Four points and they were the highest scorers of those four pairs.

It was an amazing round one, wasn't it?

And, in round two, we lost Mike and Kyle.

In round one, they got two pointless answers between them.

They got knocked out early,

but they are very, very good players.

Now, a show doesn't go by these days without a beard.

-That looks like a proper beard.

-That is a proper beard. Aidan's beard is something.

When you watch Pointless on Challenge,

you can tell what series we are on

largely by the length of gentlemen's beards.

You know, it's a great beard, but, in the olden days,

for ten minutes, we'd have just stared at it.

-Now we take these things for granted.

-Yeah.

Extraordinary how times change.

Thank you very much indeed. So, yes,

the important news is Jennifer and Naomi didn't win the jackpot

last time, that's the big news,

so we're adding another £1,000 to that jackpot.

Today's jackpot starts off, look at that, at £7,000.

Extraordinary.

There we are. Now, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

Only one thing you need to know and it's this -

the pair with the highest score at the end of each round will be eliminated.

Our first category this afternoon is...

science.

Can you decide in your pairs who's going first and who's going second?

And, whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, let's find out what the question is.

Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name...

The letters P or H, Richard.

Yes, simply looking for any elements on the periodic table

as of December 2015 please,

according to the IUPAC, that contain the letters P or H.

Worth remembering in this round,

because people always get furious at home,

that sulfer is spelt with an F.

It is officially spelt with an F.

Mike, welcome. Here from Jersey.

-Remind us what you do, Mike.

-I'm an administration and systems manager.

You're looking after all the systems in Jersey, which is marvellous.

When you're not looking after systems, Mike,

what do you get up to?

At the moment, I'm devoting a lot of my time to mini challenges

in my 30 before 30 list.

What's left on the list?

It's a mix of eating challenges, travelling challenges.

-Yeah.

-Get on a quiz show

and give Alexander Armstrong a high five challenges.

Wow. Listen, let's just sort that out right now.

There we are. OK. There we are.

That's good. APPLAUSE

-OK.

-I would have loved it if you said nope.

Mike, what would you like to go for?

I have a few.

I think I'm going to go phosphorus.

Phosphorus says Mike.

Let's see if that's right

and how many of our 100 people said phosphorus.

30.

30 for phosphorus.

Two Ps and two Hs in that.

That is packed full of Ps and Hs.

Yeah. Fantastic.

Well done. Good. 30 there.

Now, Louis. Louis, what do you do, Louis?

I'm a biochemistry student at Bristol.

At Bristol. What year are you in?

Final year, third year.

How's biochemistry been at Bristol?

It's difficult, but I quite enjoy it in general.

Have you worked out what you're going to do when you finish yet?

Well, I'm thinking of completely abandoning my degree, actually,

and going into animal conservation.

Good stuff. Now, Louis, what are you going to go for?

I should really know this, considering my course,

but I'm going to go for lithium.

-Lithium.

-Yeah.

Lithium says Louis.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said lithium.

It's right.

30's our only score at this point

and you fly past that.

Down you go to four. Very well done indeed.

Good answer.

Well done, Louis.

Lithium. Louis is a professional biochemist,

so if anyone can beat that score, that'd be impressive.

Wouldn't it? Very good.

Thanks, Richard.

Now, Rachel, what do you do?

I'm a retail manager in a department store.

How many floors are you on, your department store?

Well, we've only got two floors, but we only sell home products.

Is it an old-fashioned department store?

It's one that's been around for about 150 years,

-but we're quite modern these days.

-OK.

Excellent. What do you do apart from that?

In my spare time, I like collecting records

and I do a bit of DJing on the side with one of my friends.

We run an '80s night together...

-Fantastic.

-..which is just the most fun.

Excellent. Now, Rachel, chemical elements with Ps or Hs.

Now, I've got one, I don't know if I'm going to pronounce it correctly,

it's europium.

Europium, says Rachel. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Europium.

(Please be right. Please be right. Please be right.)

It is right.

Well, 30's our high score, four is our low,

you fly past 30, you fly past four.

Look at that, down to one. Very well done indeed, Rachel.

Very good.

Great answer, Rachel. Pointless favourite, Europium.

So Louis got beaten by an '80s DJ there.

Thanks, Richard. Now then, Claire.

Claire, remind us what you do.

I'm a legal PA, I work for a shipping law firm in London.

Shipping law. That's the kind of law you want to be in, shipping law.

-It's very exciting.

-Fun.

What do you do when you're not doing shipping law?

We've got a young daughter, so that takes up a lot of our time.

-A year old, you said, last time?

-Yeah. Yes.

-Lovely. What's her name?

-Abigail.

-If we say hello, Abigail,

it'll be meaningless to her, but still, hello, Abigail.

So, Claire, what are you going to go for?

I have two in mind.

One is probably quite obvious,

so I'm going to take a bit of a risk

because I don't know if it is one or not

and go for dysprosium.

Dysprosium, says Claire, let's see if it's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said dysprosium.

It's right.

So, 30 the high score.

I bet you go past that, you do.

One is our low score, you pass that.

Yes, indeed!

Dysprosium is our first pointless answer of the show.

It adds £250 to today's jackpot,

takes the total up to £7,250.

It scores you nothing.

Very, very well done indeed, Claire.

-Fantastic.

-Well-played, Claire.

So, two answers last time, you scored four, now another zero,

so for people who've never been in the second round yet,

it's very, very impressive. Yeah, dysprosium.

-Louis, once again.

-Yeah, it's not looking good.

-You're getting beaten.

-There we are.

We're halfway, so let's take a quick look at those scores.

Zero, of course, the best score.

An unbeatable score on the far podium.

Then up to one, where we find Rachel and Aidan.

Up to four, where we find Louis and Marie,

and then up to 30, Mike and Kyle.

Now, about this, Kyle, how is your chemistry?

Um...

-Mixed.

-OK, good luck with your score then, Kyle.

We'll look forward to that. We'll come back down the line.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK. So, Alex, remember,

we're looking for elements that contain the letters P or H,

but before we get an answer from you, Alex, remind us what you do.

I'm an applications manager for a law firm in the city.

Aside from the law, Alex, what do you get up to?

I do a lot of cycling, playing guitar

and also looking after Abigail.

Trying to get her to win Wimbledon one day

so we can retire early, about 50.

I know she's only one, but you've got to think ahead.

Good stuff. OK, now, Alex, there you are on nothing,

the high scorers on 30, Kyle and Mike.

29 or less keeps you in the game.

Science isn't the strong subject at all,

but I think I saw one the other day.

I might be making this up, but I'm going to say Rutherfordium.

Rutherfordium.

Or Ruther-fudium.

Listen, call it what you like,

Rutherfordium is what I'm going to say.

There's your red line. If you get below that,

you're through to the next round.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Rutherfordium.

You've done it. Very well done, Alex.

Ah, one!

Exceptional play on the far podium there.

One is your total because you score one for Rutherfordium.

Great answer, Alex. Well-played.

Named after Mike Rutherford from Genesis.

Across four answers now, they've scored five points.

1.25 points a question.

-That's going it some!

-Not bad, not bad at all.

Thank you, Richard. Now, Aidan, what do you do?

-I'm a drum teacher.

-How long have you taught drums?

-About eight years.

-You're also a practitioner of drums?

I play, yeah. I play.

How many bands do you play in?

-Currently, three.

-What kind of music do you play?

Sort of mixture between rock, folk, a bit of psychedelic.

Wow. Aidan, you're on one.

The high scorers here are Kyle and Mike on 30.

28 or less gets you through.

Dreadful subject for me.

I'm going to have to go for

something really obvious like plutonium.

Plutonium says Aidan.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

Here's your red line. If you get below that red line,

you are through to round two.

How many people said plutonium?

It's right.

You've done it. Very well done indeed. Just 22.

Takes your total up to 23.

Good work, Aidan.

I love that look of relief on Aidan's face there.

Very well-played, Aidan.

Good name for a band as well, plutonium, I would say.

Wonderful. There we are.

Now, Marie, hello.

-Welcome to the show.

-Thanks.

-Also studying at Bristol.

-Yes.

-What do you study?

-I study history of art.

-How's that going?

-Really good, I really enjoy it.

What do you do when you're not studying?

So, I'm currently training for a half marathon.

-Ah.

-Running quite a lot.

Where's the half marathon?

-In Bath.

-In Bath, excellent.

-Well, I hope you do well.

-Thank you.

You're on four, the high scorers in front of you still Kyle and Mike.

If you can possibly score 25 or less,

you are through to the next round.

That's unlikely. This isn't a very good round for me.

Louis is going to be annoyed at me later,

but I'm going to have to go for potassium,

which I'm not even sure is...

It sounds like it's got a P in it.

Sounds like it, but I'm not sure.

OK. Well, let's find out, potassium.

Let's see if it has a P in it.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said potassium.

There's your red line.

Oh!

Ohhh! Marie. 35.

It was expected.

35 takes your total up to 39.

Kyle and Mike back in with a chance there.

Makes that final question very interesting, doesn't it?

Potassium, we've got potassium in every single cell in our body.

Thank you very much. Kyle, there you are on 30.

All a little bit tense here.

You know what you have to do. Kyle,

remind us what you get up to in Jersey?

I'm an accountant, a fund accountant,

in Jersey in the finance sector.

Very good. And, aside from accounting,

what do you like to get up to?

A lot of golf, running, five-a-side

football, that sort of thing.

Sounds fun in Jersey, doesn't it?

-Doesn't it just? Amazing.

-A lot of golf.

Very good indeed.

Now, how comfortable are you amongst these chemical elements?

Well, obviously I know some, but...

I'm going to go with...

Proposium.

Propo... Have you made this one up?

Yes.

-Proposium.

-That's it, yeah.

OK. Let's find out if that exists.

Here is the column.

Here is your line.

Right down at the bottom of it.

If you get below that with proposium,

you are into the next round.

How many of our 100 people said proposium?

Oh, I'm sorry, Kyle.

I'm afraid not yet an element.

I'm afraid that scores you 100 points, takes your total up to 130.

-Good name for an element though.

-Yeah.

People make stuff up sometimes, it's disappointing.

-That I thought was rather good, wasn't it?

-It was good, yeah.

-Shall we look at the pointless answers?

-I think we should.

What our 100 people said when we asked them online.

Copernicium was a pointless answer.

Holmium. Krypton,

a pointless answer, very well done if you said that.

And lanthanum, neptunium, protactinium.

That's got a nice name, hasn't it? Rhenium, thallium and thorium -

very well done if you said any of those.

Let's take a look at the top three,

the ones that most of our 100 people said.

There's potassium, 35.

Helium, 45.

Should be right at the top. Oh, there we go, hydrogen on 73.

Fabulous. Thank you very much, Richard.

At the end of that, the pair we are saying goodbye to,

it's our double pointless scorers from the first round last time.

It's been wonderful having you.

Thank you so much for coming to play, Kyle and Mike.

But, for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for round two.

And so we are now down to three pairs.

We'll have to say goodbye to another pair at the end of this round,

but the big story of round one is Alex and Claire.

Extraordinary, we said goodbye to you

at the end of the first round last time

and here you are with just one point between you.

Fantastic. Really, really good play there.

Best of luck to all three pairs.

Our category for round two this afternoon...

Famous people.

Can you all decide in your pairs who is going to go first, who's second?

And, whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

Time magazine's 100 most significant historical figures.

-Richard.

-On each board,

we're going to show you six clues

and the answers to each of those clues

is someone who appeared on this list.

Six on the first board, six on the second,

-12 to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much.

Let's reveal our first board of six clues and here they come.

We have got...

I'm going to read those one last time.

Louis, it's you up first.

Well, I think I might know a few,

but I think I'll play it relatively safe

and say Thomas Edison as the US inventor.

Thomas Edison as the US inventor

of the first practical filament light bulb. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It is right.

31.

-31 for Thomas Edison.

-Well-played, Louis.

Not a bad start at all.

Edison claims that he proposed to his second wife by Morse code.

Very good. Now then,

Rachel, what would you like to go for?

-SHE SIGHS

-I've got no idea!

Um... This is going to be a complete guess.

I'm going to go for the German composer.

I don't know, it's not going to be right,

but I'm going to say Handel.

OK, Rachel is saying Handel for the German composer of The Ring Cycle.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

I'm afraid not Handel.

-That scores you 100 points.

-Yeah, sorry, Rachel.

Are you just naming things you can buy in your shop?

LAUGHTER

OK, Claire, you are the last person to have this board.

Do you want to just go through it with us?

No. I haven't got a clue either.

I'm going to have to take a guess as well

for the Conservative politician,

so Winston Churchill?

Winston Churchill, says Claire, succeeding Neville Chamberlain.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It's right.

53 for Winston Churchill.

There we are.

-Good enough.

-Good answer, Claire, well-played.

Let's fill in the rest of the board, shall we?

The Pope succeeded by Joseph Ratzinger.

-John Paul II.

-John Paul II.

He would have scored ten points.

-Now, the British monarch...

-Queen Victoria.

-Queen Victoria.

Of course it is. And she would have scored 55.

The German composer, not Handel, it was Richard Wagner.

Would have scored 42.

And the Spanish monarch was Philip II...

and that would have scored 25.

So, the best answer on the board - Pope John Paul II.

Thanks very much. We're halfway through the round.

Let's take a look at the scores.

31, Louis, the best score of the pass.

Very well done. Louis and Marie

looking pretty strong as contenders for the head-to-head at this stage.

Up to 53, where we find Claire and Alex.

Ditto. Rachel and Aidan, I'm afraid, yes, ahead there on 100 points.

It's not the end of the world though, Aidan.

I think you could salvage something

if you had a really good low score in this next pass.

It might be enough to keep you in the game.

Best of luck with that. We're coming back now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put six more clues up on the board and here they come.

We've got...

I'll read those all one last time.

-There we go. Alex.

-Yeah, history isn't good.

I knew three on the other board, though.

Yeah, I know one for sure.

The Simpsons one I should know because I've watched every episode,

but I'll stay safe and I'll say the Roman emperor is Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar, says Alex.

Julius Caesar. Here is your red line.

You have to get below that with Julius Caesar

to remain with us at the end of the round.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

-49.

-That's...

49, I think that's probably good enough.

102 is your total.

Yeah, Caesar was assassinated by his own senators.

Thanks, Richard. Now, Aidan...

-Hiya.

-Aidan, what we really need from you

at this point is a score of one.

Erm...

I'm going to go with the top one, the French general.

I'm going to say Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napoleon Bonaparte, says Aidan. Let's see if that's right.

Here is your red line. I mean, there it is.

Look at that.

Yeah! If you can get below it,

you're definitely into the next round.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Napoleon Bonaparte.

Oh, look at that. 55.

Takes your total up to 155.

A valiant effort, Aidan.

He wrote a romantic novel, Napoleon Bonaparte,

Clisson et Eugenie.

Wow! Thanks very much, Richard.

-Now, Marie.

-Hi.

This board's all yours.

Here's good news, you're through to the next round...

-Wow!

-..whatever you score.

But, bearing that in mind, help yourself.

So I knew those two.

But I'm going to have to go for Joseph Stalin

for the leader of the Soviet Union.

OK, Joseph Stalin for the leader of the Soviet Union during the

Second World War. Let's see if that's right.

No red line for you, you're already through.

But how many people said Joseph Stalin?

It's right.

48.

There you are. 48.

79 is your total.

Well-played, Marie. Yeah, I mean, killed scores

and millions of people, Stalin,

but there's a picture of him on the internet, you'll find it,

where he looks exactly like a hipster.

And he's really, really, really,

really ridiculously good-looking as well.

That's a picture of him when he's young.

It's really worth looking at!

I don't know why I raised that. Now, the psychologist,

-it's Sigmund Freud.

-Interesting.

Sigmund Freud would have scored 35.

-The composer of the Brandenburg Concertos?

-JS Bach.

-Is Bach, yep.

13 points for that.

And the writer of The Raven?

-Edgar Allan Poe.

-Edgar Allan Poe.

A wonderful episode as well, that is.

29 points for that. So Bach

is the best answer on the board.

Thanks very much, Richard.

So, at the end of our second round, the pair who are heading home

with a high score of 155, Aidan and Rachel, I'm afraid it is you.

But we'll see you again next time -

look forward to that.

Meantime, thanks very much. Aidan and Rachel.

But for Alex and Claire, Louis and Marie,

it's now time for our head-to-head.

Many congratulations, Alex and Claire, Louis and Marie.

You are now one step closer to the final

and a chance to play for our jackpot,

which currently stands at £7,250.

Well, you know what happens here - you go head-to-head -

but the difference is you can now confer before you answer,

which is wonderful. The first pair to win two questions will play

for that jackpot. Louis, every time I see you,

you cheer me up and I've just worked out what is.

When we were little, we used to have a towel like that...

LAUGHTER ..like that jumper.

Thank you!

Anyway, listen, best of luck to both pairs.

Let's play the head-to-head.

OK, here is your first question and it concerns...

Screen Robots. Richard?

We're going to show you five pictures now of robots

that have appeared on TV and in films.

You simply have to name that robot, please.

OK, name that robot.

Here they come.

There we go, five screen robots.

Alex and Claire, you've been our low scorers so you will go first.

Definitely, he's normally taller.

So do you want to go for R2-D2 or RoboCop?

-The only ones I know...

-It's Johnny Five.

If you're sure.

Um... We know a couple, but we're going to go for B

and we think that's Johnny Five.

B, Johnny Five.

B, Johnny Five. Now, Louis and Marie.

I think we might know three of them.

-E, I think, RoboCop.

-Yeah.

C, R2-D2.

And I think B is WALL-E.

-And we're going to go for B.

-You're also going for B,

and you're going to say WALL-E.

OK, so we have Johnny Five from Claire and Alex

and WALL-E from Louis and Marie.

Only one of you can be right, obviously.

Let's find out. Or maybe neither of you!

Who knows? It might be a completely different robot altogether.

Alex and Claire are going for Johnny Five.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many people said it.

I knew it wasn't.

I'm afraid not Johnny Five,

which would suggest that Louis and Marie might be right,

but let's find out for sure.

WALL-E, is that right, how many people said it?

It is right.

33 people said it.

But chiefly it was right, which means, after one question,

Louis and Marie, you're up 1-0. Well done.

I like it when people go for the same answer as somebody else,

especially when it's people who look as lovely and polite

as Louis and Marie. It just shows a steeliness at your core.

Yeah, Johnny Five from Short Circuit, of course,

but that's WALL-E. We'll clear up D and E first.

E, you're absolutely right, was RoboCop.

Pretty big scorer, though.

Would have scored 52.

And D...

Is that Marvin, the Paranoid Android?

-From the film.

-From the remake.

Yeah, that's Marvin the Paranoid Android

and would have scored you four points.

Now, we've got K9 and we've got R2-D2.

R2-D2, I would probably say, you'd think,

maybe the most famous robot or droid in the history of television.

Or is K9? What do you think?

I'd have thought R2-D2 is fairly universally recognised.

Well, I'll tell you, K9 scored 64.

-OK.

-R2-D2...

Yes.

..scores 62.

-No!

-62.

-R2-D2?

-Beaten by K9.

-Can you believe it?

-No!

I don't believe that for a second.

That's extraordinary.

-Thank you very much indeed.

-Pleasure.

Screen Robots.

Here comes your second question.

Now, Alex and Claire, you have to win this one to stay in the game,

but Louis and Marie will get to answer it first.

Our second question concerns...

-Boxing, Richard.

-Simply going to show you five clues now

relating to the sport of boxing.

You need to give us the most obscure answer that you can.

OK, let's reveal our five clues and here they come.

We've got...

I'm going to read those one last time.

There we are. Louis and Marie go first.

-Do you know any?

-SHE WHISPERS

-And then...

-I know the third one, that's Mike Tyson.

-Well, what do you think is going to be lower?

-Mike Tyson, I'd say.

I think the boxer who bit off a part of a Evander's ear was Mike Tyson.

Mike Tyson, say Louis and Marie.

Mike Tyson. Now, Alex and Claire.

I'm going to leave it to Alex.

Do you want to talk us through the board, Alex?

The top one's undercard.

The boxing film is Rocky.

That's Joe Calzaghe, the bottom one. I think the weight is bantamweight.

But we're going to go for Joe Calzaghe,

who won the Sports Personality Of The Year.

OK, so we have Mike Tyson, we have Joe Calzaghe.

Louis and Marie went for Mike Tyson.

Let's see if it's right. Let's see how many people said it.

It is right.

56 for Mike Tyson.

Now, Alex and Claire, you're hoping to come back into the game here with

Joe Calzaghe. Let's see if that's right and, if it is,

let's see how many people said it.

OK, £7,250 at stake.

You are back in the game.

Very well done indeed.

Down it goes to 11.

Very well done.

Everything you needed to do right there, Alex and Claire.

After two questions, it is 1-1.

Nice work there, Alex. You're right about undercard

and it actually would have been a better answer.

Undercard scores eight points.

The boxer is not bantamweight, it's tough because there's lots of them.

It's featherweight, this is.

Featherweight would have scored you 20 points.

And the boxing film, of course, is Rocky.

That would have scored you 83.

The recent, kind of when they revamped it, they called it Creed.

It's a terrific film.

-He's good.

-He's really good. He's great in that.

But that's a really good film.

I must see that. Now, here comes the third and final question.

I say final, maybe we'll go on, and on, and on.

We shall see. Here comes the third question, usually the decider.

Best of luck to both pairs.

Remember that wonderful jackpot at stake.

Our third question concerns...

LAUGHTER

-Richard.

-Need I say any more?

-Mm-mm-mm!

We're going to show you five ingredients from that recipe now,

but we're just going to show you the first letters of each word.

Can you tell us what those ingredients are, please?

The team with the most obscure answer is going forward

to play for that £7,250 jackpot,

so very best of luck.

Very good. OK, so here are our clues to ingredients.

And we have...

I'm going to read those again.

There we are. Alex and Claire will go first.

I'd... I'd guess turmeric.

-Yeah.

-I can't think what L and J is.

-No, I can't.

-Let's go for the top one.

-OK.

We think we know a few, but we're going to go for the top one and say

-turmeric.

-Turmeric?

OK, turmeric, say Alex and Claire.

-Now, Louis and Marie.

-We were also going to say turmeric.

Do you want to talk us through the board? See what else you know.

We think three tablespoons is lemon juice.

Then, the bottom one, onion.

Can't quite get the other two.

So shall we go for lemon juice?

-Lemon juice, we'll go for.

-OK, we're going to go for lemon juice.

So we have turmeric and lemon juice.

Now, Alex and Claire said turmeric.

Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It's right.

47 for turmeric.

Louis and Marie have gone for lemon juice.

Three tablespoons L, J.

Let's see if that is lemon juice, let's see many people said it.

It's right.

Oh, look at that. Lemon juice pips it.

There we go, 25.

Very well done indeed.

Which means, Louis and Marie, after three questions,

you are through to the final 2-1.

I'm surprised by that. I'm surprised by the score for turmeric -

it's big. People obviously know that recipe very well.

The biggest scorer on the board is two medium tomatoes,

peeled and very finely chopped,

that would have scored you 80 points.

-The next biggest scorer, 140g...

-Onion.

-..onion.

Onion's 57 points. The best answer on the board, just one point,

four tablespoons of chopped...

-Curry leaves?

-So close.

-Coriander leaves.

-Coriander leaves!

-Yeah, coriander leaves.

One point. Very well done if you said that.

Thank you very much indeed.

So the pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head around, I'm afraid,

Alex and Claire. Oh!

What a merry dance you've led us this episode.

It's been fantastic.

Right from the first round, amazing.

You've added to the jackpot, you've been absolutely superb.

It's been wonderful having you. Alex and Claire, great contestants.

Thank you.

Good luck in the final.

Best of luck. Well done.

But, for Louis and Marie, it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Louis and Marie,

you've seen off all the competition

and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

You now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot.

At the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at...

Let's just look back over the journey, shall we,

that we've taken to arrive at this point?

We started with chemical elements containing Ps and Hs,

we then had historical figures, then we had screen robots,

-then we had boxing, and then we finished with a curry, which is nice.

-Yeah.

But here we are in the last round,

where you get to choose from the four options we put up on the board.

They can be quite hard.

They require very specialist knowledge usually.

What sort of things would you like to see up there?

-History of art.

-OK.

-Art.

-I think geography, African geography would be a good one.

OK, very good.

Let us not forget, £7,250 at stake.

This could be very, very exciting.

Best of luck. Today's choices look like this.

We've got...

art...

That's probably enough, isn't it?

HE READS WHILE YAWNING

Yes, well, what would you like to go for?

-So much pressure.

-It's all on you, it's all on you.

It's going to have to be art.

I think it is, isn't it?

I would really be an embarrassment to my degree if I didn't pick this.

OK. Art.

In some ways, it's the dream. In some ways, it's the nightmare.

I'm going to continue that because

there's stuff here that you should get

and there's seven and a bit thousand pound up for grabs as well,

so I wish you the very, very best of luck.

-The pressure is on.

-Three very different questions.

We're looking for the name of anyone who has won

the Turner Prize since 1984.

So from 1984 all the way up to the 2015 prize.

We're looking for any -isms in Tate Gallery's glossary of art terms,

so anything that ends -ism

in the Tate Gallery website's glossary of art terms.

We're looking for any artist of the 41 post-war public sculptures

which were granted grade two or grade two star listed status in 2016.

Any of the artists behind one of those.

So any Turner Prize winner,

any -ism in the Tate Gallery's glossary

or any artist of a listed post-war piece of public art.

Very, very best of luck.

As always, you've got up to one minute

to come up with three answers.

All you need to win that jackpot

is for just one of those answers to be pointless. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are. Your time start now.

I can only go -isms.

Colonialism...

-That's an art term.

-Impressionism.

That won't score pointless. There's post-impressionism,

but that's also probably not going to be pointless.

A Turner Prize winner - Antony Gormley.

OK, you can go for that.

-I think.

-More -isms?

-Cubism?

-No, that would be too high.

-Fauvism.

-Listed post-war public art...

Surrealism, that'll be high.

I don't think Fauvism is even one.

Think of some Turner Prize winners.

-I don't know any.

-Modern art.

I only do ancient art.

I think colonialism will be quite a good one.

What about Andy Warhol?

Turner Prize... Turner's British.

-Ten seconds left.

-OK, so...

You've got your Turner prize, colonialism...

-Is it Andy Gormley or Antony Gormley?

-I don't know.

-I don't even think he won.

-Colonialism and...

So do you have two -isms?

-Post-impression.

-OK, that is your time up now,

I now need your three answers.

What are you going to go for?

Antony Gormley.

Antony Gormley, in which category?

-Turner Prize winners.

-Turner Prize winner.

And then two in the -isms,

post-impressionism.

Post-impressionism.

And colonialism.

And colonialism.

Of those three answers,

which is your best shot at a pointless answer?

-I would say colonialism.

-Colonialism goes last.

Least likely to be pointless?

-Antony Gormley.

-Antony Gormley.

Post-impressionism goes into the middle.

OK, we'll pop them up in the board in that order then.

And here they are. We have got...

Very, very best of luck. Your first answer was Antony Gormley.

In this case, we were looking for Turner Prize winners.

Let's just say one of these is a pointless answer

and you were to walk off with £7,250,

what would you do with it, Louis?

One of my close friends is currently on a year out in Colombia,

so I would probably like to fly out and see her there,

maybe do a bit of volunteering work while I'm there.

Very nice indeed. Marie, how about you?

I am currently planning a backpacking trip around the world,

-so...

-This would be handy.

-..this would really be handy.

Very handy, quite timely.

Well, very, very best of luck.

As I say, Antony Gormley is the first answer,

we're looking for Turner Prize winners.

Let's see if it's right, then let's find out if it's pointless.

If it is, it'll win you £7,250.

It is right.

Down it goes. If Antony Gormley goes all the way down to zero,

you leave here immediately with £7,250.

Down it goes through the teens, into single figures.

Still going down, down it goes, still going down!

One!

-Wow.

-Wow.

Wow. One point for your least confident shot

at a pointless answer.

Two more shots in store.

Your next answer was post-impressionism,

post-impressionism.

In this case, we were looking for -isms

in the Tate Gallery's glossary of art terms.

You've gone for post-impressionism.

If it's right and if it's pointless, it will win you £7,250.

How many people said post-impressionism?

It is right. Antony Gormley,

your first correct answer, took us all the way down to one.

Post-impressionism now taking us down through the teens

and into single figures,

still going down, still going down, down it goes.

One again.

£7,250 at stake.

We have come within millimetres of it with our first two answers here.

Your third and final answer,

everything is now riding on it, colonialism.

Again, in this case,

we were looking for terms, -isms,

in the Tate Gallery's glossary of art terms. Colonialism.

It has to be right and it has to be pointless for £7,250.

How many people said colonialism?

Oh!

-Oh, Louis and Marie.

-It is an art term, but...

Have a word with the Tate, for heaven's sake.

I can't believe it. You have come so close

and I bet you'll have known a million other terms

in that glossary as well.

You can probably think of a few of your own right now.

Unfortunately, you didn't manage to find that all-important pointless answer,

so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £7,250.

You came so close to it. That will roll over onto the next show.

But we have really enjoyed having you on.

You've been brilliant the whole way through, and it's some consolation,

but you do get to take home a Pointless trophy.

So there you are. Very well done. It hasn't all been in vain.

No jackpot, but you didn't let yourself down or your subject down.

You showed that you knew your stuff, so that's some consolation.

Post-colonial art they have on the Tate website, but not colonialism,

I'm afraid. There'll be plenty of terms there that you do know.

We'll start, though, with Turner Prize winners.

In fact, everyone apart from Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry,

Gilbert and George, Wolfgang Tillmans,

Steve McQueen and Antony Gormley,

every other Turner Prize winner was a pointless answer,

so well done if you said any of those.

Now, let's take a look at some of those -isms.

Brutalism, it's more commonly used for architecture.

I mean, unbelievably, abstract expressionism is a pointless answer.

-Oh, no.

-Luminism is a pointless answer,

there's Orientalism as a pointless answer,

there's Stuckism as a pointless answer.

So all sorts of pointless answers out there, I'm afraid.

Very well done if you got any of those at home.

Let's take a look at some of those post-war public artists.

In fact, everyone there apart from Henry Moore,

Antony Gormley, again, who scored five in that category,

Barbara Hepworth and Elizabeth Frink,

every other name on that list was a pointless answer.

Listen, if you'd had two minutes,

I know you'd have come up with so many -isms and it's super tough,

but well done throughout and I'm sorry you're not going away with the money.

It's been great fun.

Thanks. Well, unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to you,

Louis and Marie, but it's been wonderful having you.

Thank you so much for playing.

Louis and Marie, very sadly, didn't win our jackpot today.

That means it rolls over onto the next show,

when we will be playing for...

Join us next time, see if someone can win it.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard...

-Goodbye.

..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.